An audience with Mark Wiseman: BlackRock’s stock-picking radical

The Canadian leading the giant fund manager's active division on why old-school research is 'dead'

Mark Wiseman
Danilo Agutoli

By

David Ricketts

April 23, 2018 Updated: April 25, 2018 12:12 p.m. GMT

Mark Wiseman begins our meeting by handing me one of his wife’s business cards.

It is an easy mistake for the Canadian to make. His spouse, Marcia Moffat, has worked at BlackRock for the past two-and-a-half years overseeing its business in Canada. Wiseman admits he must have picked up the wrong stack of BlackRock cards from the bedside table before his trip overseas.